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When the sun slips behind the moon’s shadow on Monday, August 21, during the total solar eclipse, people will be eagerly positioning themselves for the best view of the event. (Don’t forget your solar-filtered glasses!) But what about how it will sound? In one of the earliest scientific recordings of a total eclipse in 1544, […]read more

On Tuesday, the moon passed in front of the sun, casting a shadow over remote sections of the Pacific Ocean: a total solar eclipse. Since not many people live in the middle of the ocean, to the rescue came Alaska Airlines, whose reg...

The great American total solar eclipse of 2017 is almost upon us.
On Monday, August 21, the moon will slip in front of the sun and cast a dark shadow that will travel across the contiguous United States. A partial solar eclipse will...

When the moon blots out the sun during Monday's total solar eclipse, 12 states in its path of totality, from Oregon to South Carolina, will be plunged into darkness for a few minutes. The eclipse will begin over the Pacific Ocean at...